'Planet Gear' is an irregular feature on DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the 'magic' happen... NY/LA genre-hopping duo Javelin return ...

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As hardcore-fetishism and macho-posturing permeated the mainstream during the infant years of the 1990s, indie-rock loyalists shifted directions. Responding to the shrill noise of populist rock which ...

Today’s the day that Scotland decides whether to become an independent country or stay part of the UK. It’s been a momentous campaign that’s seen impassioned arguments from both the Yes and No ...

From the DiS archive... republished because Jason Molina sadly died at the weekend... There’s only one mystery when it comes to music that speaks to the depths of your soul. It’s not the way that ...

When lead singer Lee Newell declared them to be “the future of music” at their first show at the Flowerpot last year, Brother became the whipping boy of the DiS forum and have remained permanently ...

Need to get in touch? Got something to pitch? Here's how to do it... First of all, a disclaimer. We're a small team, and we get upwards of 1000 emails a day, most of them asking for things we've never ...

Home counties based quintet Chapterhouse were one of the leading lights of the first wave of shoegaze. Initially formed in Reading back in 1987, they went on to release a clutch of critically ...

The spectre of Pink Floyd looms large over Roger Waters. Whether he wants it to or not, the ghost of the band he so famously quit in the early 1980s still has an indisputable association with him, and ...

The Teenagers are getting away with it. Teenagers all over the developed world are getting away with it, running around with their disposable incomes and their stupid oversized shoes and their even ...

Lounge. Twee Pop. Tropicalia. Easy Listening. Jazz. Funk. Giallo. City Pop. Indie Pop. Baggy-Madchester. Ye-ye. 60’s Soul. Video Game Music. Downtempo. House. Nu ...

For years I wanted the complete Pere Ubu back catalogue. I’d tease myself as a teenager walking into record shops and pick up one of the million albums that made up their back catalogue, or so it ...